| In August 2005, Ifremer launched Archimer, its institutional repository: a full-text database providing free access to publications, theses, conference proceedings, and internal reports. As part of the Open Access movement, this database promotes Ifremer's works on an international scale. A year later Archimer offers more than 1,400 documents of which more than 70% of those publications have been written or co-written by Ifremer since August 2005. As a supporting step towards the Open Access movement, Ifremer, through the La Perouse Library, also developed Avano, an OAI harvester for the Marine and Aquatic Sciences. This harvester collects bibliographical data of electronic resources (documentation, images, datasets, videos, audio files) stored in a group... |
